Jack Black

A typical career for a rock band – formation, peak years, inevitable decline and ugly break-up – lasts at least a few years. On Monday, the process was accelerated in the course of a hilarious, briskly paced 90-minute show by actor Jack Black and comedian Kyle Gass, whose parody partnership as Tenacious D drew a sell-out crowd at Hard Rock Live. It took exactly two songs for Tenacious D to, well, break up. “Usually, at this point in the show, the show is way better than this,” Black explained, adding that his partner wasn’t carrying his weight. A mini-drama unfolded in which Gass quit and returned in the course of two songs: “Dude (I Totally Miss...

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A typical career for a rock band – formation, peak years, inevitable decline and ugly break-up – lasts at least a few years.
On Monday, the process was accelerated in the course of a hilarious, briskly paced 90-minute show by actor Jack Black and...

Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black signed on to make this comedy about competitive bird-watching.And they were amazed at what they discovered while making "The Big Year": Bird-watchers, or "birders," hopping on planes, flitting...

Two vastly different films about the scourge of slavery in America, a thriller about the rescue of American hostages in Iran and a study of the dogged quest to capture one of the world's most wanted men -- Osama bin Laden -- were among...

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Sure, the publicist tells me that longtime Muppets writer Jim Lewis crafted the answers to questions I emailed to Kermit and Miss Piggy in advance of the March 20 Blu-ray/DVD release for "The Muppets." I choose to ignore that and believe...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Veteran actor and comedian Steve Martin is writing a book based on his Twitter posts, with all profits going to charity, the book's publishers said on Friday.
Martin announced the book via Twitter in a tweet that said "Due to...

Like many boys, Adam Chester's most embarrassing moments occurred in middle school, courtesy of his dear mom. He was changing gym clothes alongside his buddies when he heard a familiar, shrill voice from beyond: "AAADAAM!" In through the...

** (out of four)Sigh. Martial-arts loving panda Po (voiced by Jack Black) returns with his big appetite and big mouth to discover the truth about his birth parents and defeat yet another villainous animal (this time a peacock voiced by Gary Oldman) that’s...